Oil And Gas

California lawmakers are advancing an effort to preserve oil refinery safety rules that were designed to prevent fires, explosions and other catastrophes despite industry opposition.  The union-backed proposal, Senate Bill 966, would enshrine existing worker protections into state law as California regulators move to revise them in response to a legal settlement with the state’s […]

An overhaul of California's carbon auction program is forcing lawmakers to reduce spending and decide whether high-speed rail deserves $1 billion a year.

The California Supreme Court ruled that cities can’t make taxpayers complete extra procedures, handing Marathon Petroleum a win in its tax battle with Carson.

California’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline.

The state has made billions of dollars in concessions for refineries, but that may not be enough to avoid their retirement. Some are more than 100 years old.

Newsom's longtime personal and political dealings with Big Oil include ties to the Getty family and several recent state regulation changes.

California’s gasoline watchdog found Chevron stations charged the highest average price of any major brand tracked in late May.

California air regulators on Friday approved a contentious overhaul of the state’s carbon market, creating a program that could steer billions of dollars in free pollution permits to oil refineries and other major polluters over the objections of environmental groups, key lawmakers and three of the board’s own members. Ten members of the California Air […]

In the face of the nation’s highest gas prices, California lawmakers approved a bill to ease restrictions on E85 conversion kits — devices that let conventional gasoline cars run on a cheaper, mostly ethanol fuel blend. Assembly Bill 2046, dubbed the “Access to Affordable Gas Act” by its author, Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, a Stockton Democrat, […]

California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, two refineries have closed and gas prices have topped an average of $6 a gallon as the Iran-Israel war sent […]